Inspectors

(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint- (a) such officers, or (b) such persons as possess the prescribed qualification, as they think fit, to be inspectors for the purposes of this Act and define the local limits within they shall exercise their powers. (2) Subject to any rules made in this behalf, an Inspector may, within the local limits for which he is appointed,- (a) enter, at any time after sunrise and before sunset with such assistants (if any), being persons in the service of the Government, or any local or other public authority, as he thinks fit, premises or places where agricultural workers are employed or where he has reasons to believe that records are kept, for the purpose of examining any register or record of wages required to be kept under this Act or the rules made thereunder and require the production thereof for inspection; (b) examine any person whom he finds in any such premises or place and whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be an agricultural worker; (c) seize or take copies of such register or record or portions thereof as he may consider relevant in respect of an offence under this Act which he has reason to believe has been committed by a landowner; and (d) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed. (3) Until Inspectors are appointed under this Act, the Inspectors appointed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (Central Act 11 of 1948), shall be deemed to be Inspectors appointed under this Act for the area in which they exercise jurisdiction under the said Act. The Government may by notification in the Gazette, remove from office any Director if in their opinion such Director has ceased to represent the interests which he purports to represent in the Board or if the Government are satisfied that the Director had acted against the implementation of the Act or of the scheme or against due discharge of the functions of the Board or of the Chairman or the office of the Fund: Provided that before removing a Director under the clause, he shall be given a reasonable opportunity to show cause why he should not be removed.